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A66698	The lives of the most famous English poets, or, The honour of Parnassus in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror to the reign of His present Majesty, King James II / written by William Winstanley, author of The English worthies ...	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1687 (1687)	Wing W3065; ESTC R363	103,021	246

whole Club of Wits in that Age joyned together to write Mock-commendatory Verses in Praise-dispraise of his Book If Art that oft the Learn'd hath stammer'd In one Iron Head-piece yet no Hammer-Lead May joyn'd with Nature hit Fame on the Cocks-comb Then 't is that Head-piece that is crown'd with Odcomb For he hard Head and hard sith like a Whet-stone It gives Wits edge and draws them too like Jet-stone Is Caput Mundi for a world of School-tricks And is not ignorant in the learned'st tricks H' hath seen much more than much I essure ye And will see New-Troy Bethlem and Old-Jury Mean while to give a taste of his first travel With streams of Rhetorick that get golden Gravel He tells how he to Venice once did wander From whence he came more witty than a Gander Whereby he makes relations of such wonders That Truth therein doth lighten while Art thunders All Tongues fled to him that at Babel swerved Lest they for wunt of warm months might have starved Where they do revel in such passing measure Especially the Greek wherein 's his pleasure That jovially so Greek he takes the guard of That he 's the merriest Greek that ' ere was heard of For he as ' t were his Mothers twittle twattle That 's Mother-tongue the Greek can prittle prattle Nay of that Tongue he so hath got the Body That he sports with it at Ruffe Gleek or Noddy c. He died at London in the midst of the Reign of King James I. and lieth buried in St. Giles in the Fields Doctor JOHN DONNE THis pleasant Poet painful Preacher and pious Person was born in Do●●●n of wealthy Parents who took such care of his Education that at nine years of Age he was sent to study at Hart-Hall in Oxford having besides the Latine and Greek attained to a knowledge in the French Tongue Here he fell into acquaintance with that great Master of Language and Art Sir Henry Wootton betwixt whom was such Friendship contracted that nothing but Death could force the separation From Oxford he was transplanted to Cambridge where he much improved his Study and from thence placed at Lincolns Inn when his Father dying and leaving him three thousand pound in ready Money he having a youthful desire to travel went over with the Earl of Essex to Cales where having seen the issue of this Expedition he left them and went into Italy and from thence into Spain where by his Industry he attainted to a perfection in their Languages and returned home with many useful Observations of those Countries and their Laws and Government These his Abilities upon his Return preferred him to be Secretary to the Lord Elsmore Keeper of the Great Seal in whose Service he fell in Love with a young Gentlewoman who lived in that Family Neece to the Lady Elsmore and Daughter to Sir George Moor Chancellor of the Garter and Lieutenant of the Tower who greatly opposed this Match yet notwithstanding they were privately married which so exesperated Sir George Moor that he procured the Lord Elsmore to discharge him of his Secretariship and never left prosecuting him till he had cast him into Prison as also his two Friends who had married him and gave him his Wife in Marriage But Mr. Donne had not been long there before he found means to get out as also enlargement for his two Friends and soon after through the mediation of some able persons a reconciliation was made and he receiving a Portion with his Wife and having help of divers friends they lived very comfortably together And now was he frequently visited by men of greatest learning and judgment in this Kingdom his company desired by the Nobility and extreamly affected by the Gentry His friendship was sought for of most foreign Embassadors and his acquaintance entreated by many other strangers whose learning or employment occasioned their stay in this Kingdom In which state of life he composed his more brisk and youthful Poems in which he was so happy as if Nature with all her varieties had been made to exercise his great Wit and Fancy Nor did he leave it off in his old age as is witnessed by many of his divine Sonnets and other high holy and harmonious Composures as under his Effigies in these following Verses to his Printed Poems one most ingeniously expresses This was for youth strength mirth and wit the time Most count their golden age but times not thine Thine was thy later years so much refin'd From youths dross mirth and wit as thy pure mind Thought like the Angels nothing but the praise Of thy Creator in those last best days Witness this Book thy Emblem which begins With love but ends with sighs and tears for sins At last by King James's his command or rather earnest persuasion setting himself to the study of Theology and into holy Orders he was first made a Preacher of Lincoln's-Inn afterwards advanc'd to be Dean of Pauls and as of an eminent Poet he became a much more eminent Preacher so he rather improved then relinquisht his Poetical fancy only converting it from humane and worldly to divine and heavenly Subjects witness this Hymn made in the time of his sickness A Hymn to God the Father Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun Which was my sin tho' it were done before Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run And do run still tho' still I do deplore When thou hast done thou hast not done For I have more Wilt thou sorgive that sin which I have won Others to sin and made my sin their door Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two but wallowed in a score When thou hast done thou hast not done For I have more I have a sin of fear that when I have spun My last thrid I shall perish on the shore But swear by thy self that at my death thy son Shall shine as he shines now and heretofore And having done that thou hast done I ask no more He died March 31. Anno 1631. and was buried in St. Paul's-Church attended by many persons of Nobility and Eminency After his burial some mournful friends repaired and as Alexander the great did to the Grave of the most famous Achilles so they strewed his with curious and costly flowers Nor was this tho' not usual all the honour done to his reverend ashes for some person unknown to perpetuate his memory sent to his Executors Dr. King and Dr. Momford an 100 Marks towards the making of a Monument for him which they faithfully performed it being as lively a representation as in dead Marble could be made of him tho' since by that merciless Fire in 1666. it be quite ruined I shall conclude all with these Verses made to the Memory of this reverend person He that would write an Epitaph for thee And do it well must first begin to be Such as thou wert for none can truly know Thy worth thy life but he that

us the days more darkish are More short cold moist and stormy cloudy clit For sadness more than mirths or pleasures fit Devising then what Books were best to read Both for that time and sentence grave also For conference of friend to stand in stead When I my faithful friend was parted fro I gat me strait the Printers shops unto To seek some Work of price I surely ment That might alone my careful mind content And then he declareth how there he found the first part of this Mirrour for Magistrates which yet took beginning from the time of King Richard the Second But he knowing many Examples of famous persons before William the Conquerour which were wholly omitted he set upon the Work and beginning from Brute continued it to Aurelius Bassianus Caracalla Emperour of Rome about the year of Christ 209. shewing in his Writings a great deal of Wisdom and Learning He flourished about the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth ABRAHAM FRAVNCE THis Abraham Fraunce a Versifier about the same time with John Higgins was one who imitated Latine measure in English Verse writing a Pastoral called the Countess of Pembroke ' s Ivy-church and some other things in Hexameter some also in Hexameter and Pentameter He also wrote the Countess of Pembroke ' s Emanuel containing the Nativity Passion Burial and Resurrection of Christ together with certain Psalms of David all in English Hexameters Nor was he altogether singular in this way of writing for Sir Philip Sidney in the Pastoral Interludes of his Arcadia uses not only these but all other sorts of Latine measure in which no wonder he is followed by so few since they neither become the English nor any other modern Language He began also the Translation of Heliodorus his Aethiopick History in the same kind of Verse of which to give the Reader the better divertisement we shall present you with a tast As soon as Sun-beams could once peep out fro the Mountains And by the dawn of day had somewhat lightned Olympus Men whose lust was law whose life was still to be lusting Whose thriving thieving convey'd themselves to an hill top That stretched forward to the Heracleotica entry And mouth of Nylus looking thence down to the main sea For sea-faring men but seeing none to be sailing They knew 't was bootless to be looking there for a booty So that strait fro the sea they cast their eyes to the sea-shore Where they saw that a Ship very strangely without any ship-man Lay then alone at road with Cables ty'd to the main-land And yet full fraighted which they though far fro the hill-top Easily might perceive by the water drawn to the deck-boards c. His Ivy-Church he dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke in which he much vindicated his manner of writing as no Verse fitter for it then that he also dedicated his Emanuel to her which being but two lines take as followeth Mary the best Mother sends her best Babe to a Mary Lord to a Ladies sight and Christ to a Christian When he died we cannot find but suppose it to be about the former part of Queen Elizabeth's Reign WILLIAM WARNER WIlliam Warner one of principal esteem in his time was chiefly famous for his Albion's England which he wrote in the old-fashioned kind of seven-footed Verse which yet sometimes is in use though in different manner that is to say divided into two He wrote also several Books in prose as he himself witnesseth in his Epistle to the Reader but as we said before his Albion's England was the chiefest which he deduced from the time of Noah beginning thus I tell of things done long ago of many things in few And chiefly of this Clime of ours the accidents pursue Thou high director of the same assist mine artless Pen To write the Jests of Brutons stout and Arts of English-men From thence he proceeds to the peopling of the Earth by the Sons of Noah intermixing therein much variety of Matter not only pleasant but profitable for the Readers understanding of what was delivered by the ancient Poets bringing his Matter succinctly to the Siege of Troy and from thence to the coming of Brute into this Island and so coming down along the chiefest matters touched of our British Historians to the Conquest of England by Duke William and from him the Affairs of the Land to the beginning of Queen Elizabeth where he concludeth thus Elizabeth by peace by war for majesty for mild Enrich'd fear'd honour'd lov'd but loe unreconcil'd The Muses check my saucy Pen for enterprising her In duly praising whom themselves even Arts themselves might err Phaebus I am not Phaeton presumptuously to ask What shouldst thou give I could not guide guide give not me thy task For as thou art Apollo too our mighty subjects threats A non plus to thy double power Vel volo vel nollem I might add several more of his Verses to shew the worth of his Pen but the Book being indifferent common having received several Impressions I shall refer the Reader for his further satisfaction to the Book itself THOMAS TVSSER THomas Tusser a person well known by his Book of Husbandry was born at Riuen-hall in Essex of an ancient Family but now extinct where when but young his Father designing him for a Singing-man put him to Wallingford-School where how his Misfortunes began in the World take from his own Pen. O painful time for every crime What toosed ears like baited Bears What bobbed lips what yerks what nips What hellish toys What Robes so bare what Colledge-fare What Bread how stale what penny Ale Then Wallingford how wer 't thou abhorr'd Of silly boys From thence he was sent to learn Musick at Pauls with one John Redford an excellent Musician where having attained some skill in that Art he was afterwards sent to Eaton-School to learn the Latine Tongue where how his Miserie 's encreas'd let himself speak From Pauls I went to Eaton sent To learn straightways the Latine phrase Where fifty three stripes given to me At once I had For fault but small or none at all It came to pass thus beat I was See Vdal see the mercy of thee To me poor Lad. Having attained to some perfection in the Latine Tongue he was sent to Trinity-Hall in Cambridge where he had not continued long but he was vexed with extream sickness whereupon he left the University and betook himself to Court and lived for a while under the Lord Paget in King Edward the Sixth's days when the Lords falling at dissention he left the Court and went to Suffolk where he married his first Wife and took a Farm at Ratwade in that County where he first devised his Book of Husbandry but his Wife not having her health there he removed from thence to Ipswich and soon after buried her Not long after he married again to one Mrs. Amy Moon upon whose Name he thus versified I chanced soon to find a Moon Of chearful